The CentMesh project brings together research, teaching, outreach and fun
activities in the general area of mobile computing and wireless networking at
NCSU's Centennial Campus, through a deeply programmable, researcher-architected
and -built permanent outdoor wireless mesh facility, and surrounding
capabilities. External funding for the CentMesh project has come from the US
Army Research Office.

People

Many graduate students over the years have contributed to CentMesh. Technical
leadership has been provided by Mihail Sichtiu (ECE) and Rudra Dutta (CSC).
Dennis Kekas (CoE Dean's Office, AVC, ECE; previously CCD, NTI, CACC) provided
original impetus and vision. John Streck (ITng) and John Bass (OSCAR Labs)
supported original operationalization and provide facility continuity and
maintenance. Will Brockelsby (OIT) provides operational support. Lee Ann
Clark (CSC) provides event coordination and other administrative support.

The CentMesh facility consists of a completely user-programmable mesh of 14
rooftop and poletop nodes, 8 pushcart-mounted nodes, a small number of airborne
nodes, together with software images that experimeters can use as is, build on
to create their own images, or simply run programs on. Access to a bandwidth
slice of a commercial mesh product is also available.

Some more information on the inception of the CentMesh project, and its
context, is available.
The
CentMesh wiki has more detailed information on the development
roadmap of the CentMesh project. This wiki is mainly meant for
CentMesh developers, and accesss to parts of it are restricted to current
CentMesh students and ITng personnel, in addition to the project leads.